All of This New Model Army

All of This (Sullivan/Heaton) There's a sentry in a uniform To watch the VIPs along the hall Strategical discussions taking place Behind the steel plated wall The agents issue the statements

Brave New World New Model Army

Brave New World (Sullivan/Heaton/Harris/Joolz) The office lines are busy And the girls are working hard Tonight they'll be out clubbing With their boyfriends busy wishing they were Gentlemen

Someone Like Jesus New Model Army

Someone Like Jesus (Sullivan) I met someone like Jesus in the spring of ’98 He was so full of love and I was so full of hate So I nailed him on a cross where he belonged told myself it’s what

The Attack New Model Army

The Attack (Sullivan) Now the talking's over Plans are laid and the hour is set Glances round the table Eyes all shining, dark and bright We meet again at daybreak For the day that will be ours

Purity New Model Army

Purity (Sullivan) The rains move in eastwards In waves of succession Drawing lines of grey across the sky With history just as close As a hand on the shoulder In hunger and impatience we cry

Tension New Model Army

cracking From within Like a bomb just ticking And waiting like hours And hours keep folding And winding and stretching And deep down inside The foundations are tearing apart And the holes are all

R.I.P. New Model Army

(Sullivan/Heaton) This all started the way things do With a laugh and a cup of tea around the fire As we sheltered from those wicked winds In front of that old TV And we traded ideas as we watched

Rip New Model Army

This all started the way things do With a laugh and a cup of tea around the fire As we sheltered from those wicked winds In front of that old TV And we traded ideas as we watched each other With those

Family Life New Model Army

Family Life (Sullivan) How did they do this to you? How did they do this to you?

Gigabyte Wars New Model Army

Gigabyte Wars (Sullivan/Heaton) Well, you never grow up, you just get older, carrying all the familiar burdens with you, walking back on the hometown streets on a night devoid of stars.

Wipeout New Model Army

Wipeout (Sullivan) This is where we go to - to the blue of the ocean On the 30 westbound to the diamond water Lost out in the white waves - salt purification Bright eyes and breathless - this

Sex (The Black Angel) New Model Army

Sex (The Black Angel) (Sullivan/Morrow/Heaton) Look at my eyes - you know what it is I want you, I want you The way your body moves beneath that dress And all the nights I've spent away alone

225 New Model Army

225 (Sullivan/Heaton) She stares at the screen At the little words of green Tries to do remember what to do next There's a trace of frustration That crosses her face Searching for the key she

Ballad of Bodmin Pill New Model Army

Ballad of Bodmin Pill (Heaton/Sullivan) Smash glass against the wall Curse the music on the radio that the neighbours play Door slams, she turns her head Watches through the window as he pulls

Chinese Whispers New Model Army

your own eyes And yes I've done a lot of things You'd probably call a crime But I don't feel guilty for anything All the tongues waggle But we just smile That'll keep the little buggers Going

Innocence New Model Army

Innocence (Sullivan/Heaton) Ch: We scream, you run Fall out - fall out You scream and we're gone Fall out - falling out There must have been times in the smoke and the beat on the dancefloor When all

Western Dream New Model Army

Western Dream (Sullivan/Heaton) Gather round and listen And I'll tell you how's it's done How they manage to make idiots Out of everyone Take a human population With their hunger and their pain

Heroin New Model Army

then In the mirror now you see this worn and greasy slut Ch: We only get one crack at this We only get the once Just four score years and ten old friend And yours are bleeding away With the puss

I Love the World New Model Army

I Love the World (Sullivan/Heaton) The roll of distant thunder breaks The afternoon of silence wakes They hurry through from Petergate As if they know this dance In fury blind I drive at night

The World New Model Army

The roll of distant thunder breaks The afternoon of silence wakes They hurry through from Petergate As if they know this dance In fury blind I drive at night Across the moors, the open roads Beneath the

Headlights New Model Army

The great moon riding shotgun - rolling out across the veil of clouds, and you were small, and lying awake listening to the noises in the house.

Smalltown England New Model Army

inside At quarter to eight and we'll go into town And find out what everybody's been saying About us Smalltown walls have eyes and ears Stories fly thick and fast round here Truth and lies are all

Nothing Touches New Model Army

silence Beneath the grey dawning skies Past the cooling towers Where the white clouds slowly rise I watch the world through motionless eyes Nothing touches . . nothing ever touches Raised as son of

Believe It New Model Army

Heaton/Sullivan) In the unlit room With my head in my hands The walls between us now seem unscalable I cannot control Anything There's weapons down beside your bed And every night I count them all

The Hunt New Model Army

The Hunt (Sullivan/Heaton) We went into town on the Tuesday night Searching all the places that you hang about We're looking for you In the back street cellar dive drinking clubs In the discotheques

Vagabonds New Model Army

Vagabonds (Sullivan) We follow the taillights out of the city Moving in a river of red As the colours fade away from the dusky sunset We roll for the darkness ahead Ch: We are old, we are

Great Expectations New Model Army

pop star on the screen Or captain of the England team They said "Son, it could all be yours You just work hard and pay your dues Don't be content with what you've got There's always more that you

Lust for Power New Model Army

of sound before And braced ourselves for victory and the spoils of the land Defences melt away before our frozen blank surprise From the palace now we stare into a million waiting eyes Ch: I've

Prison New Model Army

The curtain breathes, the air swims The sweat dries cold on the shivering skin The sheets they twist and turn again Round and round My mother she feeds and cares for me Shackled to responsibility All

Falling New Model Army

Falling I said, father, let me change the world He said, now don't you think that maybe, son, it's changing up already Don't try to justify the things you live by The fear you carry with you is not of

Tales of the Road New Model Army

get back Sitting in the all night cafe in a curl of smoke Telling tales of the road By the glow of a flickering lighter We went stumbling forward through the corridor Up the broken stairway to the

Courage New Model Army

Courage (Sullivan/Heaton) We walk every morning in silence Past the mills on Whetley Lane Where the lights went out for the very last time And they never came on again The spokesman all shred

Deadeye New Model Army

Deadeye (Sullivan) To the thoughts of the many from the minds of the few Voice of reason, censored view The truth is the News and the News is the truth As if that'll do as a lame excuse For killing

Inheritance New Model Army

Inheritance (Sullivan/Heaton) Mother, Father, I'm doing OK On the other side of the country Far away And though I know the things That you want to hear me say Sometimes these things are hard

Understand U New Model Army

Understand U (Sullivan/Heaton) Ch: They don't understand you None of them understand you Tonight, as you stare at the ceiling again With you lover turning away Disappointment closing in Like

Killing New Model Army

Killing (Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson/Blomberg) It was summer when they finally came, the law of force and line upon line of machine upon machine, back into the greenwood, closer to the heart of things

The Price New Model Army

The Price (Sullivan/Morrow) Splashing through the water on the motorway The headlights shine every drop of rain And every mile takes a minute and every minute lasts an hour And there's so many

Drag it Down New Model Army

Drag it Down (Sullivan/Heaton/Morrow) They started work this morning Down at city square They're pulling down the statues Of our great grandfather's hero The new books said he wasn't such a great

Bury the Hatchet New Model Army

Bury the Hatchet (Heaton/Sullivan) Bury the hatchet with a smile and a curse The world is big enough for both of us The pack's been shuffled now - we've got different hands There's different enemies

Before I get Old New Model Army

Before I get Old (Sullivan) I'm going to kiss the girls, make them cry Live too fast, still not die Before I get old I'm going to see you raised above this place Watch the moments shine upon

Green and Grey New Model Army

Green and Grey (Heaton/Sullivan) The time I think most clearly The time I drift away Is on the busride that meanders Up these valleys of green and grey I get to think about what might have been

Green and Grey (Live) New Model Army

pass a rainy mile Thinking of you And all the while, all the while I still hear that call To the land of gold and poison That beckons to us all Nothing changes here very much I guess you'd say it never

White Light New Model Army

sunset I'm riding on the Great North Road Coiled and tensed in wonder As the land turns burning gold Ch: Out in the sun, out in the wind I'm nearly ready now to come back again We are silent in this

Lurhstaap New Model Army

passion and the two faced call They dance together upon the wall With nothing left to break the fall Now twenty-five miles north in the great dark woods The college buildings stand And the ghosts of

Trust New Model Army

Trust (Sullivan) Walking home on a foggy night Walking home alone Wishing there was power in my fingertips To burn through this solid stone How the hell am I supposed to know what mood you're

Space New Model Army

Space (Sullivan/Heaton/Nelson) Well you walk the thinnest of the ice So easy to hurt We drove through the dark in the pouring rain And barely said a word So dress your wounds as best you can

Queen of My Heart New Model Army

Queen of My Heart (Sullivan/Heaton) To the Queen of my Heart, from the King of Nowhere . . .

White Coats New Model Army

White Coats (Sullivan/Heaton/Harris) Well we know what makes the flowers grow But we don't know why And we all have the knowledge of DNA But we still die We perch so thin and fragile here Upon

Adrenalin New Model Army

Adrenalin (Sullivan) We were in the corner, the Clanduff by the door On opposite sides of the dance hall, staring across the floor The lights go out, the fists fly in, it's the usual Friday scene

The Charge New Model Army

Our history speaks in thunder From a thousand village halls In blood and sweat and sacrifice In honouring every call So the forces gathered against the thorn A- piercing in their side The brave new